2009年2月2日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Vote sows seeds of greater calm in Iraq's north (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Feb 2009 12:54 AM CST

Iraqi soldiers help a resident to enter a polling station in Mosul, 390km (240 miles) north of Baghdad January 31, 2009. Iraqis voted behind barbed wire and rings of police on Saturday in an election that tested the war-battered country s fragile security gains and which may ease lingering sectarian resentment still fuelling violence. (Khalid al-Mousuly/Reuters)Reuters - Voting in Iraq's restive Nineveh province looks likely to restore disenfranchised Sunni Arabs to power, and possibly ease resentment that has fueled continued violence there, officials said.

Iraqi election hints of troubles for Shiite giant (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 10:32 PM CST

Two Iraqi municipality workers remove provincial election campaign posters in Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009. Allies of Iraq's U.S.-backed prime minister appeared Sunday to have made gains in the provincial elections, rewarding groups credited with reining in insurgents and militias, according to unofficial projections. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)AP - The biggest Shiite party in Iraq once appeared to hold all the political sway: control of the heartland, the backing of influential clerics and a foot in the government with ambitions to take full control.

US troops watch the Super Bowl from afar (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 10:31 PM CST

U.S. Army Lt. Julie Glaubach, 30, center, Staff Sgt. Michael Sauret, 23, left, both from Pittsburgh, Pa., Maj. Thomas Spagel, 42, from Erie, Pa., second right and Spc. Justin Snyder, 21, from Mechanicsburg, right, cheer for the Steelers as they watch the Super Bowl XLII on television at Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Feb. 2, 2009. The Super Bowl aired on satellite television in Iraq beginning at 2 a.m. American troops in Iraq were allowed to drink beer without fear of court-martial for this year's Super Bowl, an exception to a strict military ban on drinking alcohol in combat zones. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)AP - With its six big-screen TVs, assorted beer and a menu of chicken wings and pizza, it looked like any bar hosting a Super Bowl party. But this was the chow hall at Camp Victory, the sprawling U.S. military base on the outskirts of Baghdad.

Obama sees 'more responsibility' for Iraqis (AFP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 10:07 PM CST

Iraqi soldiers secure the streets the day before the provincial council elections in the western city of Ramadi,100 kms from Baghdad on January 30, 2009. President Barack Obama said Sunday that the United States is in a position to place more responsibility in the hands of the Iraqis following provincial elections and a reduction in violence there.(AFP/Azhar Shallal)AFP - President Barack Obama said that the United States is in a position to place more responsibility in the hands of the Iraqis following provincial elections and a reduction in violence there.

Obama says Iraq's peaceful elections aid pullout (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 09:42 PM CST

In this Jan. 5, 2009 file photo, then-President-elect Barack Obama, flanked by then-Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner, left, and then-Council of Economic Advisers Chair-designate Christina Romer, meets with members of his economic team at his transition office in Washington. A report released earlier this month by Christina Romer, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and Jared Bernstein, an economic policy adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, predicted that more than 90 percent of the 3 million to 4 million jobs Obama's proposed stimulus proposes to save or create would be in the private sector. But the report also estimated that 244,000 government jobs - some at the federal level, but more at the state and local level - would be created or saved. That was based on a $600 billion stimulus package; the one being debated in Congress is more than $800 billion. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)AP - President Barack Obama said Sunday that the peaceful elections in Iraq are "good news" for U.S. troops and their families, and he agreed with the suggestion that a substantial number of those troops could be home within a year.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,237 (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 07:09 PM CST

Iraqi soldiers help a resident to enter a polling station in Mosul, 390km (240 miles) north of Baghdad January 31, 2009. Iraqis voted behind barbed wire and rings of police on Saturday in an election that tested the war-battered country s fragile security gains and which may ease lingering sectarian resentment still fuelling violence. (Khalid al-Mousuly/Reuters)AP - As of Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009, at least 4,237 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Sunni party likely big winner in northern Iraq (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 05:45 PM CST

A police officer stands guard while another searches a voter entering a polling center during the country's provincial elections in Mosul, Iraq, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009. Iraq's third largest city is the major urban battlefield left in the fight between Sunni insurgents and U.S. troops in Iraq, and a Sunni party led by former Saddam Hussein loyalists with strong anti-Kurdish views appears the likely winner in provincial balloting. If the party emerges on top, that could heighten ethnic tensions in an area the Americans see as al-Qaida's last urban stronghold. (AP Photo)AP - In the last major urban battlefield in the fight between U.S. troops and Sunni insurgents, a Sunni party opposed to both Kurdish influence and the American military presence has emerged as the likely big winner in provincial voting.

Obama says most U.S. troops in Iraq home within a year (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 05:01 PM CST

U.S. Marines of Mobile Assault Company, 1st Battalion that provide security to a U.S. State Department election observers team secure a polling station in Sinjar, 390 km (240 miles) northwest of of Baghdad January 31, 2009. Iraqis held their most peaceful election since the fall of Saddam Hussein on Saturday, and voting for provincial councils ended without a single major attack reported anywhere in the country. Picture taken January 31, 2009. (Erik de Castro/Reuters)Reuters - President Barack Obama told Americans on Sunday a substantial number of the 140,000 U.S. troops in Iraq would be home within a year, saying Iraqis were now ready to take more responsibility for their own security.

Low turnout in Iraq's election reflects a disillusioned nation (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 03:12 PM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Voter turnout in Iraq's provincial elections Saturday was the lowest in the nation's short history as a new democracy despite a relative calm across the nation. Only about 7.5 million of more than 14 million registered voters went to the polls.

In Baghdad district, secular lists take the votes (AFP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 12:45 PM CST

A young girl looks out of a window draped with a banner of Shiite Muslim Imam Hussein in the Abu Saifan neighborhood adjacent to the Fadel district of Baghdad. The district, one of Baghdad's oldest, is a Sunni island surrounded by Shiite districts and was formerly a fulcrum of the insurgency in Baghdad.(AFP/Ali Yussef)AFP - The number 498 was on everyone's lips in polling booths in the Fadel district of Baghdad during voting in the Iraqi provincial election on Saturday.

Iraq death toll 'lowest since invasion' (AFP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 12:37 PM CST

An Iraqi mourns the loss of a relative in Baquba. A total of 191 Iraqis were killed in violence across the country last month, the lowest toll since the US-led invasion of 2003, authorities said on Sunday.(AFP/File)AFP - A total of 191 Iraqis were killed in violence across the country last month, the lowest toll since the US-led invasion of 2003, authorities said on Sunday.

Polls delay Iraq prisoner transfer (AFP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 10:07 AM CST

Detainees at Camp Bucca near the Kuwait-Iraq border. The US military said the provincial elections have delayed the transfer to Iraqi authorities of prisoners held by the US-led coalition at Camp Victory and Camp Bucca,(AFP/File/David Furst)AFP - The elections in Iraq have delayed the transfer to Iraqi authorities of prisoners held by the US-led coalition that will now take place later this week, a US military spokesman said on Sunday.

US soldier dies in northern Iraq (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 04:43 AM CST

AP - The U.S. military says an American soldier has died of a noncombat-related injury in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.

After Waiting to Vote, Iraqis Will Now Wait (and Wait) for Results (Time.com)

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 11:55 PM CST

Time.com - Iraqi officials say no major incidents or serious complaints were reported in the country's provincial elections, but the results will not come so quickly

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